Cognitive distortions in sex offenders: an integrative review. We suggest that an understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the initiation, maintenance, and justification of sexual offending is a vital prerequisite to the development of successful treatment programs. Research has identified that child sex offenders hold thematically distinct cognitive distortions, which Ward and Keenan () call Implicit Theories. The aim of. Cognitive distortions are held to contribute to sexual offending against children in a number of theoretical explanations of such crimes. However, not only is there.

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Cognitive distortions in sex offenders: an integrative review. We suggest that an understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the initiation, maintenance, and justification of sexual offending is a vital prerequisite to the development of successful treatment programs. Research has identified that child sex offenders hold thematically distinct cognitive distortions, which Ward and Keenan () call Implicit Theories. The aim of. Cognitive distortions are held to contribute to sexual offending against children in a number of theoretical explanations of such crimes. However, not only is there.

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In this paper, we use a social cognition framework to review the literature on the role of cognition in sexual offending. Do you want to read the rest of this article? There have been a number of attempts to describe the nature of these beliefs and to develop ways of measuring them, but in the absence of any integrating theory.

We suggest that an understanding of the cognitive processes underlying the initiation, maintenance, and justification of sexual offending is a vital prerequisite to the development of successful treatment programs.

Do you want to read the rest of this article? Thus, not every conscious belief is the product of a deeper cognitive structure, as proposed by Ward et al. As such, we argue that the term 'cognitive product' is a misnomer, and should be dropped from the theoretical rhetoric on sex offender cognition.